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    My standby and hibernate button doesn't work most of the time...

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by hellogoodbye, Aug 12, 2006.

  1. hellogoodbye

    hellogoodbye Notebook Guru

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    Do you guys kno why?
     
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    vestige Notebook Consultant

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    Please give a more detailed explanation than that.
     
    vestige, Aug 12, 2006
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    hellogoodbye Notebook Guru

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    umm..i have a aspire 5672 and all i do is press the standby or shift + hibernate button and nothing happens.
     
    hellogoodbye, Aug 12, 2006
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    vestige Notebook Consultant

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    Do you have BootSkins installed?
     
    vestige, Aug 12, 2006
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    i did a search for it and didnt find it so i dont think so
     
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    When did this problem start happening? Did you install/uninstall anything prior to this?
     
    vestige, Aug 12, 2006
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    umm..started last week i think? yea i d/led stuff...vlc media player..some movies/songs, spy bot search and destroy..
     
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    Did you remove any files when you ran Spybot Search and Destroy?
     
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    yea.......
     
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    Restore them
     
    vestige, Aug 13, 2006
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    ok i think it works now...after i restored and windows did some updates yayy
     
    hellogoodbye, Aug 13, 2006
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    ahhhhh its not working again!! :(
     
    hellogoodbye, Aug 13, 2006
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    Check you mem. Mine does the same thing, works 75% of the time. I really think corrupt memory is the problem. Try buying new sticks, replacing all of Acer's stock ones and see if the problem persists.
     
    deltafx1942, Aug 14, 2006
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